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DC is actually fairly safe nowadays (except perhaps for Northeast or Anacostia, but no one is going to end up there by accident).
by mpyne 13y ago
DC is actually fairly safe nowadays (except perhaps for Northeast or Anacostia, but no one is going to end up there by accident).
- astrodust 13y agoRelative to historical periods, yes, but it's still a war-zone compared to what I'm used to. The 2010 statistics indicate a homicide rate of 21.9 per 100,000 population. That's as bad as Brazil, worse than Kenya, and slightly worse than The Democratic Republic of Congo. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona..., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Washington,_D.C. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Washington,_D.C.). For perspective, the city I live in has a murder rate of 1.9, only slightly higher than the national average.
- true_religion 13y agoYou can't really compare cities to entire countries unless those countries are city-sized. For example, while Brazil has a per capita homicide rate of ~23 per 100,000 the state of Alagoas has a homicide rate of 60.3, and the Federal District has one of 34.1. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Brazilian_states_by_murder_rate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Brazilian_states_by_mur...
- astrodust 13y agoSome of those countries aren't all that big. Dominica is about on par with Washington D.C. and has a population 1/10th the size in an area only a few times bigger. Sure, parts of Brazil are a war-zone, as are parts of Mexico in the bitter battle over drugs, but that just skews the average up for the rest of the country, meaning Washington D.C. is worse than many parts of Brazil. To start splitting hairs, I bet there's parts of Washington D.C. that are on par with the worst parts of Brazil.